The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-06-30
WIN A FRONT SEAT IN LIFE.

have a front seat in life and you Mt
tract to you the powers that carry
you to the front seat. II in your
mind you take the back seat, you
get only the back seat, The conf
dent, determined mood Of mind.
steadily kept up, brings to you other
people. Confidence in the
business world means both cash and
credit. There is not half money
enough in this country for doing its
daily business. What is lacking in
coin and bank notes is made up by
mems names written on bits of paper
promising to pay certain sums in a
certain time.
Don't be screw. What keeps
thousands Of noses on the grindstone
of hard times is that they have no
confidence or courage in themselves
to take risks or responsibilities.
They keep poor-house in their
minds and live in it. They aspire to
be only screw in the business
machine instead of striking out and
making machine Of their own.
The screws are bookkeepers, tele-
graph operators, clerks, and all who
never plan anything beyond situa-
ton and steady wages. Confidence
and brains combined find such a
screw ready made by the thousands.
1t makes the screw do as much work
for as little money as possible. When
one screw is worn out it throws it
aside and gets another.
The screws find fault with the
monOpolist. Their real slavery is in
their own minds. They never think,
aspire, plan Or demand in thought to
be anything bur screws. They think
there is no place for them at the
head of a business. Their first and
great step towards staying perman-
emily at the tail OF business lies in
thinking that they must remain at
the tail, because what is assumed or
kept steadily in thought always frames
nm outward exactly like Of itself in
what can be seen. If you think clean
clothes you will always have clean
clothes.
Always aim high. A workingman
ought never to look at millionaire 8
palace without saying: 81 am going
to have palace like that" Ills
saying that in dead earnest is one
thought among many others which
pushes him forward and into his own
palace, because it is your thought
that pushes you to do things. If you
are in the apple trade and a thought
suddenly comes to you that you can
sell a hundred barrels of apples at
certain place, you cannot stay away
from that place. The idea will push
you on.
Real business does not lie alone in
being Industrious. Tho goody- goody
books and maxims have only told
half the story about industry. A
good deal depends on what you are
industrious about. If you spend all
your time and strength in polishing
pans or backing your boots, your
industry won't carry you very high,
The industrious mind in Il rested
body plans in an hour what brings
in more money than q tin pan polish
may earn in year. People who
work only or mostly with their bod
les have as good right as the capt.
talist to work with their minds. The
world always wants newer things,
more curious things, more amusing
THINGS No workman in any trade.
any art, any profession, should be
content with doing what some one
has done before him, even though he
does it well. lie should aim at do
ing something better than any one
has done before him. When he can
do this he must next push it on the
worlds notice.
Push is talent as much as skill
in any art, You can commence
pushing by imagining yourself as a
pusher. Keep yourself before your
self in mind as a pusher, and such
frame of mind will at length make
you push There is power in
Imagination of yourself in
any certain character which does
make you more and more like such
character Imagine that the best
belongs to you and you will find the
best coming to you, Imagine the
worst, you see yourself in the poor
house and the poor house comes to
you. Success, like charity, must
commence at home in the mind. Ii
now you are compelled to live in
poor room and on poor fare, do so
only under protest. Keep your
mind on the better room and the bet
ter fare. Don't say, 81 suppose |
must always take up with this" Say
II am going to have better
things than these" You are then
creating for yourself strength, not
weakness. You are then ever
affnp thantny The iuayn1ioa hla man